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Elephantman: "On the one hand, there is a "claimant," and of course every claimant deserves "compensation." On the other hand, this particular claimant is that most undesirable of non-persons in the liberal universe: the unborn "fetus." In liberal cosmology, fetuses rank somewhere above Osama Bin Laden but below Dick Cheney in terms of their threat to civilization as we know it."
Read the story again. The claimant is not a fetus, it's a seven year old girl who was injured before birth.
If anything, this is a good argument FOR abortion. If the mother had known the fetus was damaged, she could have had an abortion and prevented the birth of a girl with learning disabilities.
I'm waiting for the first case where someone sues their parents because they knew their fetus was injured/deformed/whatever and did NOT get an abortion and thus caused a damaged human being to be created.
